Spring 2010 Seminar Schedule

The McNeil Center invites graduate students, faculty members, independent scholars, and all other Early Americanists in the Mid-Atlantic region to its Friday afternoon seminar series. Meetings are held at various locations and convene at 3:00 pm on Friday afternoons. A social hour follows at 5:00 pm. Papers are circulated in advance and should be read by those planning to attend. To obtain copies via listserv, or for more information, e-mail abaxter@sas.upenn.edu or phone 215-898-9251.

January | February | March | April | May


15 January:	*Rebellion Plots?: Rumor, Narrative, and Eighteenth-Century Slavery* Justin Pope, George Washington University and 2008-2009 Barra Dissertation Fellow “Dangerous Spirit of Liberty”: The Spread of Slave Resistance in the British Atlantic, 1729-1742 Jason Sharples, Princeton University and 2008-2009 Barra Monticello-McNeil Fellow “[S]omething which this deponent did not Articulately hear”: Oblique Information, Acute Fear, and the Domestic Menace of Slave Conspiracy *Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,* *3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets), University of Pennsylvania*
22 January:	Rob Harper, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point State Formation from the Ground Up: Political Brokers and Coalition Building in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley *Weigley Room, 9th Floor, Gladfelter Hall, Temple University*
29 January:	Amina Gautier, St. Joseph’s University Not Love, but Labor: Suppressing Sentiment in the Narratives of Elleanor Eldridge and Nancy Gardner Prince *Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,* *3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets), University of Pennsylvania*
12 February:	Alyssa Mt Pleasant, Yale University *Guiding Principles: Guswenta* and the Debate over Formal Schooling at Buffalo Creek Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets), University of Pennsylvania**
26 February:	Marie Basile McDaniel, U.C., Davis, and 2008-2009 Friends of the MCEAS Dissertation Fellow Syncretism and Schism: Philadelphia's Great Awakening and Memories of the Keithian Controversy *The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia*
5 March:	Martin Brückner, University of Delaware and PEAES Post-Doctoral Fellow The Spectacle of Maps in America, 1740-1800 *Joint Seminar with the Program in Early American Economy and Society* *The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street*
26 March:	Megan Walsh, Temple University and 2008-2009 McNeil Center Consortium Fellow Seeing Invisibility: Phillis Wheatley and Venture Smith's Transatlantic Visions *Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,* *3355 Woodland Walk (34th and Sansom Streets), University of Pennsylvania*
9 April:	Paul Conrad, University of Texas and Richard S. Dunn Fellow and Friends of the MCEAS Fellow “Like Waves of the Sea”: Forced Migration and the Transformation of the Native Rio Grande, 1680-1750 *The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street*
16 April:	Shona Johnston, Georgetown University and 2008-2009 MCEAS Carpenter Dissertation Fellow “A Missionary Atlantic? Propagating the Catholic Faith in the English Colonial World *Faculty Lounge, Armitage Hall, Third Floor, Rutgers University—Camden*
23 April:	Empires of the Atlantic World: A Roundtable J.H. Elliott, Oxford University Alison Games, Georgetown University Evan Haefeli, Columbia University Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Texas A & M University *Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,* *3355 Woodland Walk, University of Pennsylvania*
7 May:	Philip C. Mead, Harvard University and Bruce Baky Valley Forge Dissertation Fellow “About the world and in jentleman’s compeny”: Travel and Authority in American Revolutionary War Soldier Diaries *Valley Forge National Historic Park*
14 May:	Albrecht Koschnik, McNeil Center for Early American Studies Francis Lieber and the Problem of an Anglo-American Civil Society in Antebellum America *Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia* *The Center's annual end-of-the-year picnic and celebration will follow, weather permitting, in the garden of the A.P.S , 104 S. Fifth Street, Philadelphia. RSVP tomceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu*

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Spring 2010 Seminar Schedule

January | February | March | April | May

15 January:

Rebellion Plots?: Rumor, Narrative, and Eighteenth-Century Slavery

Justin Pope, George Washington University and 2008-2009 Barra Dissertation Fellow

“Dangerous Spirit of Liberty”: The Spread of Slave Resistance in the British Atlantic, 1729-1742

Jason Sharples, Princeton University and 2008-2009 Barra Monticello-McNeil Fellow

22 January:

Rob Harper, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

State Formation from the Ground Up: Political Brokers and Coalition Building in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley

29 January:

Amina Gautier, St. Joseph’s University

12 February:

Alyssa Mt Pleasant, Yale University

26 February:

Marie Basile McDaniel, U.C., Davis, and 2008-2009 Friends of the MCEAS Dissertation Fellow

5 March:

Martin Brückner, University of Delaware and PEAES Post-Doctoral Fellow

The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1314 Locust Street

26 March:

Seeing Invisibility: Phillis Wheatley and Venture Smith's Transatlantic Visions

9 April:

Paul Conrad, University of Texas and Richard S. Dunn Fellow and Friends of the MCEAS Fellow

“Like Waves of the Sea”: Forced Migration and the Transformation of the Native Rio Grande, 1680-1750

16 April:

Shona Johnston, Georgetown University and 2008-2009 MCEAS Carpenter Dissertation Fellow

23 April:

Empires of the Atlantic World: A Roundtable

J.H. Elliott, Oxford University

7 May:

Philip C. Mead, Harvard University and Bruce Baky Valley Forge Dissertation Fellow

“About the world and in jentleman’s compeny”: Travel and Authority in American Revolutionary War Soldier Diaries

14 May:

Albrecht Koschnik, McNeil Center for Early American Studies

Francis Lieber and the Problem of an Anglo-American Civil Society in Antebellum America